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becalms

becalms is the third-person singular simple present indicative of becalm.

Meaning of becalm

Verb

becalm (third-person singular simple present becalms, present participle becalming, simple past and past participle becalmed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To make calm or still; make quiet; calm.
    • […] there is neither house nor landes, nor great store of gold & siluer, nor honor and noblenes of blood, nor greatnes of office, and estate, nor the grace and vehemencie of speach, which doth so much lighten, and so sweetlie becalme the life of man, as an vndefiled conscience […]1589, John Clapham, transl., A philosophicall treatise concerning the quietnes of the mind, London: Thomas Newman
  2. (transitive) To deprive (a ship) of wind, so that it cannot move (usually in passive).
    • […] there we were becalmed the .xx. day of Nouember from .vi. of the clocke in the mornynge vntyll foure of the clocke at after none.1555, Richard Eden (translator), The decades of the newe worlde or west India conteynyng the nauigations and conquestes of the Spanyardes by Peter Martyr d’Anghiera, London: Edward Sutton, “The...

Questions about becalms

What is becalms the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Becalms is the third-person singular simple present indicative of becalm.

Words near becalms in the dictionary

  1. becalm
  2. becalmed
  3. becalming
  4. becalmment
  5. becalmments
  6. becalms
  7. became
  8. became of
  9. became one flesh
  10. became the Joker
  11. becamedst

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